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Merton and Morden 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton & Morden]
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Considering briefly some of the rates which have acquired a
traditional significance as a measure of the health of an area;
the deaths from enteritis and diarrhoea under two years of age
is nil, the most favourable in the table; our infant mortality
figure, 11.73 last year, is 14.94 this year, only just one half of
the next most favourable in the table, and our death rate from
all causes at 9.58 is again the lowest in the table. Further
reference to some of these rates is made in the text in the
appropriate sections.
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